Pc specs .

[alexforwardforward]

I don't want to spend too much on a PC as I'm only a student and don't earn a lot of money lol. I'm looking to get these specs:

-AMD Ryzen 5 1500x Quad Core AM4 CPU with Wraith Spire 95W cooler
-ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS DDR4 ATX Motherboard
-2x8 Corsair Vengeance LPS DDR4 Memory
-ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 ti Cerberus 4GB Graphics
-250GB SAMSUNG SSD (For OS)
-2TB Western Digital HDD

And then all the other required parts for a PC



Bare in mind right now the only game I'm looking to play is Fortnite. But in the future I will be playing other games. Can anyone tell me whether this is a good computer.

 

[justin.m.beauvais]

In my humble opinion, this is a good budget gaming machine. It will run anything on the market today and probably anything for the next couple years pretty easily. You will probably be looking for a graphics card and RAM upgrade in a couple years, but everything else should be solid.

Now, if you wanted to go Intel, not that you'd need to as the extra threads on the Ryzen platform will keep you more relevant for longer, the i3 8100 and 8300 are ballpark the same price. The 1500x sits right between them. They also outperform the 1500x... until you overclock, which is the big advantage to the Ryzen platform. If you can push the 1500x up to 3.8 or even 4 GHz you'll easily outperform the 8100 and possibly outperform the 8300, plus have more threads and a platform that can upgrade the CPU in 2 years to something much faster.

Also, why go Samsung? Get a Crucial SSD. The MX 500 series performance is really close to the Samsung drives and costs a lot less. For the same price as a 960 EVO 250GB drive you can get a 500 GB MX 500 and not really give up anything.